Saturday, June 28

Speaks Out: Earth Day


Zokaeim

Charlie Wang


Charlie Wang

Yu

Charlie Wang

Zhao

Charlie Wang

Sesay

Charlie Wang

Vickery

Charlie Wang

Rashid

As Earth Day has recently passed us by, we asked students what they were doing to be sustainable. Here’s what bruins had to say:

Dana Zokaeim
Fourth-year, history
“I unplug my phone charger, take shorter showers and I donate to Greenpeace.”

Fahmida Rashid
Fourth-year, geography
“We recycle in our apartment and … try to conserve electricity and stuff like that to save money.”

Taylor Vickery
Fourth-year, neuroscience
“I’m mostly looking into recycling … cans, bottles or anything from my apartment, but I know a lot of people who are also recycling for fundraising purposes like Unicamp and things like that.”

Therenah Sesay
Second-year, psychology
“I actually recycle a lot … at the end of the quarter, when I have a lot of leftover bottles around, or pages that I printed out by accident and used for scratch paper.”

Amber Zhao
First-year, business economics
“I try to use less napkins in the dining hall and less paper for calculations (for class).”

Da Yu
First-year, materials engineering
“I try to just recycle bottles whenever I can and use less plates whenever in the dining halls. I don’t pay that much attention to napkins, though … they’re just there to be used, and if you don’t use them, you know somebody else will.”


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